Reviews
Abdullah Ibrahim: African Piano
Done on one of Ibrahim's return visits to Copenhagen's Montmartre, where the Dollar Brand Trio had been recorded for Fontana/Black...
Reviewed in issue May/2014
Album Interview: Billy Hart Quartet: One Is The Other
Ethan Iverson | Billy Hart | Mark Turner | Ben Street
A great addition to the lineage of the saxophone quartet – led by a drummer. It takes a player of...
Reviewed in issue April/2014
Colin Vallon Trio: Le Vent
Julian Sartorius | Patrice Moret | Colin Vallon
A restless stillness dominates this second ECM release from young Swiss pianist Colin Vallon's trio. (The first was Rruga in...
Reviewed in issue April/2014
Gary Burton: Seven Songs for Quartet and Chamber Orchestra
Gary Burton | Ted Seibs | Mick Goodrick | Steve Swallow
Recorded in 1973 and released the following year, this album has never previously been released on Compact Disc and comes...
Reviewed in issue April/2014
Vijay Iyer: Mutations
Kivie Cahn-Lipman | Miranda Cuckson | Vijay Iyer | Kyle Armbrust | Michi Wiancko
Iyer's first recorded work with strings places him in a very different setting to previous albums that range from quartet...
Reviewed in issue April/2014
Tord Gustavsen Quartet: Extended Circle
Mats Eilartsen | Tore Brunborg | Jarle Vespestad | Tord Gustavsen
Concluding a six-album cycle, and the final one of three albums by the quartet within that overarching structure, this is...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Album Interview: Norma Winstone/Glauco Venier/Klaus Gesing: Dance Without Answer
Norma Winstone | Klaus Gesing | Glauco Venier
On their third album for ECM, following the Grammy nominated Distances (2007) and Stories Yet To Tell (2009), British jazz...
Reviewed in issue February/2014
Keith Jarrett: Concerts: Bregenz/München
The simultaneous late November release of Concerts: Bregenz/München (3CD set), recorded 1981, and No End (2CD set), recorded in 1986,...
Reviewed in issue February/2014
Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Shadow Man
Tim Berne | Ches Smith | Matt Mitchell | Oscar Noriega
Tim Berne is on record as stating that his Snakeoil ensemble is a band that loves to rehearse. And, boy,...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Aaron Parks: Arborescence
Aaron Parks is a young pianistcomposer who has very gradually grown in stature since his teenage years in Terence Blanchard's...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2013/2014
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